More than it shouldve. 5 bills. Oh well, [censored] it. Its a toy anyway.Pretty stuffed in there.It goes:USB 3.0 card in the top slot.Modified Creative X-Fi PlatiniumXFX 6950 2GB w/ 6970 BIOSGeforce GT 520 w/ passive cooler (the side fan does plenty well and is one less thing to break)Slot hole taken by eSATA plate; PCI slot blocked by GT 520 cooler anyway.Highpoint 3510 RAID controllerRight side

[censored] it. I just put that ceiling fan in a few days ago. A Bitfenix Spectre Pro 230mm. Well, I just stuffed a flashlight into it and blew out two blades. Still works though, just vibrates. Bearings dont like it, Im sure. Just have to roll with it until a new one arrives I guess.

4GhzTurns out 4GHz is all I can get off this particular chip at reasonable voltage levels. At this point I was already at 1.39 vcore. If I put it under water I could probably get 4.2-4.3? This particular example just isnt a very good clocker.Still, I got 79ish Gflops out of it. I was getting just under 50Gflops out of my 4GHz 920, so it is more than 1.5x the power.In theory.I should note, those temps are 'under duress.' I unplugged the side fan and the puller fan on the cpu cooler (top fan); then I laid a cd case on top of it. So it just had the pusher and the rear fan. Did pretty well for nearly 180W. I noticed the rear fan actually started pulling hot air out after I did this, so it seems to be able to help take up slack in a failure.Another interesting thing I noticed was, while I was playing around with unplugging a cpu fan I ran just the puller and had the pusher unplugged. This actually ran cooler by 2-3C vs just the pusher. I didnt have the CD case blocking it at this point though. This requires further testing. I had been running with the assumption that pushing air through a cooler would run cooler vs pulling air through it.Anyway, with it setup the way it normally runs, max temperatures under this stress is in the 70-75C range.

Intel Burn Test. Don't mind the temps, those are really high for this test for me, only because we don't have the A/C running and ambient temp is already 80f or so. Sandy Bridge ftwlink to fullsizehttp://img84.imageshack.us/img84/8256/ibtk.png

Replaced a old Linksys WRT45G. Nothing wrong it didn't support "N" or have a gig network connection. The difference is more than I would of thought. Also added a TrendNet 8 port gigabit switch about a month ago. Really helped the WD NAS 2TB that only averaged 5-6 over a standard 100Mb connection. Now it's 10 average on our clients with 100Mb connections.. no gig cards yet. Now thinking about computer upgrades.. our newest which is laptop was purchased in 2009.